//XML load routines

 XMLload = function(url) {

	if (saf)

	{

        var d = new XMLHttpRequest();

        d.open("GET", url, false);

        d.send(null);

		return d.responseXML;

	}

    var xmldoc = XMLnewDocument();

    xmldoc.async = false;  

    xmldoc.load(url);

    return xmldoc;  

  };





XMLnewDocument = function(rootTagName, namespaceURL) {

    if (!rootTagName) rootTagName = "";

    if (!namespaceURL) namespaceURL = "";



    if (document.implementation && document.implementation.createDocument) {

        // This is the W3C standard way to do it

        return document.implementation.createDocument(namespaceURL, 

                       rootTagName, null);

    }

    else { // This is the IE way to do it

        // Create an empty document as an ActiveX object

        // If there is no root element, this is all we have to do

        var doc = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument");



        // If there is a root tag, initialize the document

        if (rootTagName) {

            // Look for a namespace prefix

            var prefix = "";

            var tagname = rootTagName;

            var p = rootTagName.indexOf(':');

            if (p != -1) {

                prefix = rootTagName.substring(0, p);

                tagname = rootTagName.substring(p+1);

            }



            // If we have a namespace, we must have a namespace prefix

            // If we don't have a namespace, we discard any prefix

            if (namespaceURL) {

                if (!prefix) prefix = "a0"; // What Firefox uses

            }

            else prefix = "";



            // Create the root element (with optional namespace) as a

            // string of text

            var text = "<" + (prefix?(prefix+":"):"") + tagname +

                (namespaceURL

                 ?(" xmlns:" + prefix + '="' + namespaceURL +'"')

                 :"") +

                "/>";

            // And parse that text into the empty document

            doc.loadXML(text);

        }

        return doc;

    }

}; 

//END OF XML load routines